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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8327854, member: 24314&quot;]Conder101, posted: &quot;The INS 6 is important and impressive.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t unique, that is now the second specimen.&nbsp; The first was pictured on page 169 in my book back in 2003.&nbsp; Yours has a lower serial number than the one I pictured.&nbsp; I don&#039;t own the first one, but I do know where it is. (I can&#039;t afford a proof 1849 half cent)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Coin Vault piece is NOT a grading service.&nbsp; It is also pictured in my book in the Miscellaneous section, pages 414 and 415.&nbsp; Coin Vault was a service from the late 1980&#039;s that would encapsulate coins for people who had photocertificate certified coins, of for added protection of coins.&nbsp; It comes in two varieties, the firs tfor photocertified coins where it identifies the company that did the certification and the grade THAT company gave the coin.&nbsp; The second variety just identifies the coin with no grade provided because they were not a grading service.&nbsp; This is explained in the text on the back of the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b30000">Actually they didn&#039;t.</span>&nbsp; The Aston P O Box on the INS 6 slab was Charles Hoskins address at the time of his death.&nbsp; The Philadelphia PA PO Box was also Hoskins.&nbsp; <b><span style="color: #660033">Apparently after INS closed down in Washington DC, Hoskins moved to PA and took INS with him.&quot;</span></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">No mystery here. </span><b><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">That&#039;s what I posted.</span></b><span style="color: #660033"> Hoskins moved INSAB to PA where he continued operations with a PA address on the label.&nbsp; As I wrote, I had no idea he changed the original INS logo, color of the insert, and came up with the name &quot;coin capsule.&quot;&nbsp; </span><span style="color: #b30000">As for the appearance of a &quot;sell-out,&quot; the INS name is being used on a self-sealed holder (?) under the Coin Vault name for an ungraded coin. </span><span style="color: #660033">&nbsp; I believe Robert Paul could answer this as he was the owner of the &quot;plastic&quot; used at INS. </span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">The International Numismatic Society was composed of a group of US, ancient, and foreign coin dealers - mostly located in the US.&nbsp; They held several conventions and added a coin grading service to the authentication service several months before the ANA began grading coins.&nbsp; I believe the Society was basically defunct when Hoskins moved as the establishment of PCGS and NGC sucked away much of his business.</span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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